Extract from the Will of the Queen Dowager Adelaide

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Title

Extract from the Will of the Queen Dowager Adelaide

Date Created

[1849?]

Creator

Adelaide, Queen Dowager

Description

This section of Queen Adelaide's will lists the effects the Queen Dowager left to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
Among the many effects bequeathed to the couple it is worth mentioning [J.] Scoular's statue of Elizabeth of Clarence [second daughter of William IV and Adelaide, who died when she was three months old] to be put in the corridor at Windsor Castle and, for Albert, the Beach (beech) tree, which is an offspring from the tree near Altenstein, to be transplanted on the slopes of Windsor Castle.

Language

English

Identifier

GEO/MAIN/37126-37127

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